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by tominous 10y ago
I can't read Thiel's mind, but his point reminded me of Mancur Olson's description of roving bandits vs stationary bandits [1]. a "roving bandit" only has the incentive to steal and destroy, whilst a "stationa
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by tominous 10y ago
My wife was diagnosed with cancer in May/June 2015 and moved into the hospice last week. We have two young kids and I'm 33. I have a lot to say, but for now two things. One, she organised health and life insurance for both of us,
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by tominous 10y ago
For me, if you wanted to simulate the worst part of having a baby, it would be a random alarm clock (5+ times a night) with a ridiculously complicated off switch. Maybe with sprays of bodily fluids. A cross between sleep deprivation torture
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by tominous 10y ago
FWIW the phrasing I use with clients is "fixed-price for successful completion of the following objectives" so it's a bit of a moot point. I do think you're overstating the research though. Many studies of unconscious pr
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by tominous 10y ago
Another data point: 30-day mortality rates for high-risk acute heart patients are lower during the dates of national cardiology meetings, i.e. when the top doctors are away. http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalm
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by tominous 10y ago
Yes and tetracyclines like doxycycline affect mitochondrial function and may confound the research in that way too. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2015.02.034
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by tominous 10y ago
That's good advice, but I don't think getting paid to produce a specific result is anchoring to "free". I guess it depends on how precise the scope is. If it sounds vague and up to the client's discretion, that they
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by tominous 10y ago
Too true. I had a potential client who had already spent months and a bunch of money on external consultants regarding an intermittent identity management integration issue. They heard about me through word-of-mouth. I offered a fixed-price
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by tominous 10y ago
Not necessarily; see radiation hormesis [1]. Small amounts can be beneficial even if large amounts are harmful. We also know there's a link between more sunlight and less incidence of other types of cancer. It's still unknown whet
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by tominous 10y ago
I'm a huge fan of taking pharmaceutical shortcuts, but a small amount of daily sunlight gives you much more than a vitamin D tablet. There are benefits in mood, sleep, and eyesight. Plus the many fun things that can be done outside alo
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by tominous 10y ago
This Reddit comment [1] suggests that people who work around CRTs a lot have a "notch" on their hearing tests at the CRT frequency of 15.734kHz. So yes it is possible. On the other hand, you probably don't want the tinnitus t
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by tominous 10y ago
"You must use Firefox 10 or higher." Unexpected impasse. Multiple steps. Requires navigation across multiple pages and applications. Just taking the test is a Level 3 task.
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by tominous 10y ago
mental illness (though I think someone did and is doing this to me) With apologies to patio11 [1], we really do need a word for "A denial which is phrased in such a fashion as to make listening observers think it is more likely, not
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The Long-Term Effects of Cash Assistance [pdf](web.stanford.edu)
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by tominous 10y ago
My guess is that the effect of the inhibitors is not linear with concentration. Imagine that the effective (deleterious) dose of these inhibitors is, say, 10% of the amount found in old mice. So an equal exchange between two mice is enough
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by tominous 10y ago
I'm not an ophthalmologist but I did a lot of reading and talking to optometrists when I couldn't quite get a prescription I liked. It was one of the tests I considered. For what it's worth I solved my own issue by insisting
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by tominous 10y ago
Apply a cycloplegic such as atropine to the eye to force the eye muscles to relax and focus as far away as possible. Then use a retinoscope to shine light on the retina and observe it while adjusting lenses over the eye. And of course sligh
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by tominous 10y ago
That explains tiny variations, but the article is talking about a shift to a new variant which requires a different immune response. The question is why did this new variant "completely replace" the old ones in the population, ins
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by tominous 10y ago
> [In 1968] a pandemic of H3N2 influenza, known as the Hong Kong flu, completely replaced the H2N2 and H1N1 seasonal influenza strains that circulated earlier. I'm curious about the idea of flu viruses completely replacing each othe
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by tominous 10y ago
I'm not a doctor but have been dealing with cancer in the family. I think we will soon see much more use of fine-needle techniques in cancer treatment in novel ways. Perhaps the next big thing will be an oil-and-gas engineer adapting d
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by tominous 10y ago
The communist murals are also timeless (but seriously, well worth a visit: the subway stations in Moscow are beautiful).
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by tominous 10y ago
The other day I asked Siri, "Remind me to pick up [daughter's name]" but it interpreted that as, "Remind me to pick up pussy." A more context-aware engine would realise we don't even have a cat. On the other h
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by tominous 10y ago
The author goes to the trouble of using the phrase "takt time" and linking to its definition but then misuses it. Assuming non-stop operations and 1 million units a day, the takt time (average time between unit starts) is about 85
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by tominous 10y ago
Thanks for confirming what I suspected in the first place: that anti-discrimination laws actually reduce employment in the protected classes. I.e. if it's harder to fire someone you'll be less likely to hire them. You seem to have
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by tominous 10y ago
A manager wouldn't care if their company were sued for a pattern of discrimination based solely on the numbers, because it is extremely hard to prove a pattern, even harder to prove intent, and the burden and blame would fall on the co
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by tominous 10y ago
Thanks, I appreciate your points: (a) that in many cases discrimination laws have resulted in a positive outcome for the person discriminated against, (b) that the modern workplace is better than in the past and (c) that people are trained
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by tominous 10y ago
I'm curious as to whether these laws make a positive difference in practice. If someone is truly racist/sexist/ageist then they could probably invent a lawful excuse for their hiring behaviour anyway. On the other hand, if th
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by tominous 10y ago
Adam Leventhal (DTrace, OpenZFS) took a look at building a FUSE filesystem on Noms using Go. http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2016/08/09/nomsfs/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by tominous 10y ago
I can't resist chiming in with another Endymion reference: the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons. Fantastic series.
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by tominous 10y ago
I like having the option to use both short and long forms. For common tasks the short form becomes second nature and saves time. For scripting or rare tasks I appreciate that the long form is self-documenting and less prone to typos.

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